Artur PaikinInterview
Founder (Baguette), designer, traveler & robot maker
Adapted from Artur Paikin's interview on Uses This, published 14 June 2016. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I have a 13" Retina MacBook Pro, and it's the best computer I've ever owned.
My phone is an iPhone 5 - it's also my camera, which is very convenient, since it's always in my pocket, has GPS, automatic backups and syncing.
All my possessions fit nicely in a Tom Bihn Daylight backpack and I like it quite a lot.
If it does prove to be too small for me over time, I'll likely switch to Synapse 19.
Finally, both me and my bag fit on an amazing foldable city bike, Strida.
Communication
Productivity
Instapaper is one of my most-used apps on the iPad: I save articles on the web, and then read them whenever I feel like it - usually on trains - in a nice, clean format with comfortable typeset.
Notes
Evernote keeps my notes, articles I liked, lists of movies to watch and books to read, design & dev links, and code snippets.
Security
1Password generates and stores random secure passwords.
Coding & Development
iTerm is great for command line stuff - I usually have about 3--4 tabs open, some of them split into two panes.
Design
Sketch is my go-to app for designing and prototyping, as well as preparing SVG assets for the web.
Media
Storage
Backblaze makes continuous online backups for $5 a month, and I'm thankful for that piece of mind.
I also do Time Machine backups twice a month or so.
Other
I really like Deckset's themes and Markdown support, so I use it for keynote slides.
TeamViewer is really important to quickly login to my grandmother's computer and hit that "OK." button she's struggling with (can even be done while taking a bath, on a tablet, true story).